Mark Fleming, PhD, Licensed Psychologist and Director of Reentry Services for the Missouri Prison System, talks about the need for multicultural awareness in correctional healthcare practice. Multicultural awareness involves a greater understanding, sensitivity and appreciation of the history, values, experiences, and lifestyles to groups of people who aren’t your own. Those groups can include anything from race to ethnicity, gender,…
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Butterfly McQueen made her acting debut as ‘Prissy’ the flighty maid of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. Her most memorable line was “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies!” Butterfly would not make it as a correctional nurse where 6-10% of female inmates arrive pregnant and labor and delivery are high-risk and unpredictable. The Prison Journal recounts legal…
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Sue Smith and Jane Grametbaur join Lorry to talk about news items involving pregnancy care in a correctional setting. The first news headline reads: Premature Birth in TX Jail. Dawson State Jail is a 2000 inmate facility in Dallas Texas. Most of the inmates are female. A premature birth took place in one of the cells. The inmate’s family say…
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